. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. e thus secured, but all benefit from them to themselves or theirdescendants was wholly relinquished. It was the only way in which the aead^my could be must make the sacrifice and they made it. They packed up bag and baggage, sold off all theycould not carry, gathered their families together, bid farewell to the scenes of their birth and child-hood, the homes of their life and the fruit of their labor
. Northern Maine, its points of interest and its representative business men, embracing Houlton, Presque Isle, Caribou, Ft. Fairfield, Danforth, Lincoln, Mattawamkeag, Winn and Kingman. e thus secured, but all benefit from them to themselves or theirdescendants was wholly relinquished. It was the only way in which the aead^my could be must make the sacrifice and they made it. They packed up bag and baggage, sold off all theycould not carry, gathered their families together, bid farewell to the scenes of their birth and child-hood, the homes of their life and the fruit of their labor, and started in wagons and carts on theirjourney to Boston. HISTORICAL SKETCH OF HOULTON. 5 Their location was hundreds of miles distant, far down in the eastern wilderness, and inaccess-ible from the extremes of settlement at that time on the Penobscot. As the only alternative theyembarked in a coasting vessel, went down the Bay of Fundy to St. John, N. B., took a river sloop upto FVedricton—a hundred miles,—got up the river as they could, in barges or canoes, sixty milesfurther to Woodstock, and turning to the left, struck into the forest until they reached Birds Eye View of Houlton in 1891. The third result of this emigration, in successive generations and stages, from Salem farms is to1)6 seen to-day in a flourishing village, interspersed and surrounded with well cultivated fields, the«hire town of the county of Aroostook, in the State of Maine, which bears the name of the leader ofthis disinterested, self-sacrificing and noble company. Three times was it the lot of this one familyto encounter and conquer tlie difficulties, endure and triumph over the privations and carry throughthe herculean labors of subduing a rugged wilderness and bringing it to the domain of civilization,—at Salem Village, New Salem and Houlton. It would be difficult to find in all our history a story thatmore strikingly than this illustrates the elements of the glory and streng
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